Jackie Mason Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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You either are or you're not.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
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The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
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My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
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My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
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Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
